Acoustics Quotes - Page 6

• Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily from the Brazilian angle, which is dear to my heart, and I recorded several albums with that flavor. Probably even more so than the Brazilian flavor, there's an African, South African and West African influence and on a couple of other tracks there's some Latin flavor and there's some Indian tables on one track, all centered around my jazz guitar and acoustic guitars, and very much a Lee Ritenour sound.

  Lee Ritenour

  Country, Couple, Latin

  "'Jazz Monthly Feature Interview' Lee Ritenour". Interview with Baldwin "Smitty" Smith, jazzmonthly.com. October 2006.

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• I do experiment with lots of different genres. In making music, I don't think of genre like, "I want to do this, because I'm going use that country music sound; I'm going use that hip-hop sound; I'm going use that acoustic [sound]." It's just making music. So now that I've traveled a lot more since I did Acoustic Soul, I'm sure that different sounds will come into place, because I have been exposed to it and I like it. But it's not so much of a conscience effort. It's mind and spirited. You know, we're humans.

  India.Arie

  Country, Thinking, Effort

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• Sitting around home I mostly play acoustic. I've got seven or eight guitars of various sorts, including a baritone. Sometimes at home, because a guitar is just lying around, that's the guitar I pick up rather than actually choosing something. I try to plan ahead for my laziness by leaving interesting things scattered about. If I leave a baritone guitar lying around, that's the one I'll pick up, and I'll start writing baritoney things.

  Richard Thompson

  Lying, Home, Writing

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• So when I was working with Amy Winehouse on "Back To Black," you know, she had all these beautiful songs, incredibly well-written and just her on an acoustic, nylon-string guitar. And she'd play them for me, and then I would kind of drum up my idea of what I thought - make a demo with what I thought the drums should be doing, the guitars - like, quite a crude demo.

  Mark Ronson

  Beautiful, Song, Guitar

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 16, 2015.

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• Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.

  Beck

  Technology, Guitar, Electric

  "Beck: 15 Years". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. August 17, 2011.

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• It's hard to go out in front of people with an acoustic guitar and improvise for 30 or 40 minutes, but I had a compulsion to do it. I just had to in a way that I can't really explain.

  Bill Orcutt

  Guitar, People, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Most of my records are very dense, composition-heavy, and there's bits of different kinds of music like an acoustic ballad, instrumental trio pieces, and vocal tracks.

  Steve Vai

  Track, Different, Pieces

  Source: archive.alternativenation.net

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• A horn has that voice quality, and an electric guitar can emulate that. But playing an acoustic, the notes don't sustain like that.

  Bill Orcutt

  Guitar, Voice, Quality

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Saying that you've got acoustic instruments and that's traditional and so people will think it's more intimate, that will always be the case. It's a more intimate sound, so it's going to sound more direct whatever you're singing about.

  Alison Goldfrapp

  Thinking, People, Singing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I was playing with synth players, I was still within a conceptual framework of playing music. When I started playing solo, I became much more aware of the acoustic phenomena that the instruments were producing.

  Z'EV

  Player, Playing Music, Solo

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've found that since I've been playing the acoustic, listening to a horn player has left me thinking, well, what can I do with that? But somehow piano players, I feel more of a connection to , now that I'm using the acoustic.

  Bill Orcutt

  Thinking, Player, Piano

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• To me, there's never been a difference between electronic and acoustic. I've always had this idea that electricity is another element like wind or fire or water.

  Patrick Wolf

  Fire, Wind, Ideas

  Interview with William Bowers, pitchfork.com. February 27, 2005.

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• It's one thing having a great song, but I think for me if you take it to the next level... say you had a guitar and a vocal, and the song was amazing but the vocalist wasn't that great and it just was a guitar and vocal acoustic track, switching that to something like an amazing voice singing the exact same song with the instrumentation being really nice and lush or unique in some way and interesting and diverse... I think it's all about the instrumentation and textures in the sound.

  Flume

  Song, Nice, Unique

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and stuff. I started writing acoustic songs and playing by myself in 7th grade.

  Conor Oberst

  Song, Brother, Dad

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• Throughout the whole Stroll album, I'm breaking barriers. Whether I'm doing acoustic hip-hop, singing my own hooks or singing my own verses... There's always going to be people who don't like it, cause they're stuck in their ways, or they just don't like you in general... but it's been good.

  SonReal

  People, Hip Hop, Singing

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Well, I have been playing electric guitar all these years and acoustic was something new to me.

  Gary Moore

  Guitar, Years, Something New

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• I went to high school right outside Dallas, and (songwriter and performer) Michael Martin Murphey was a senior there when I was a sophomore or junior, really into folk and acoustic music. Larry Gross, who's the host of "Mountain Stage" on public radio, and B.W. Stevenson, also a musician, were there at the same time, too. Michael was a big inspiration -- through him I discovered Woody Guthrie, Dylan, Jimmy Rogers. Then I ran into Jerry Jeff Walker there in Dallas back when he was just a folk singer. Those are my earliest influences.

  Ray Wylie Hubbard

  Senior, Inspiration, School

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• I thought that it would be interesting to have a mirror and grab a light and shine it around in different ways. It's an analog to the acoustic reflections that we're going to be trying to activate as well.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Reflection, Mirrors, Light

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• In the early 60s, folk music seemed to be very popular. In the early 70s, people like James Taylor, John Denver, Jim Croce and Cat Stevens brought back the interest in acoustic music. Today, we don't hear anything.

  Paul Stookey

  Cat, People, Denver

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• I'd love to do an acoustic album alright, just on stage. That'd be nice.

  Damien Dempsey

  Nice, Albums, Stage

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• The main reason for the break was a combination of travel and going back to university, which drew me into theatre more than music. I did stuff on acoustic guitar when I was traveling, filed it away and made notes, without it being musical notation. Just taped the odd thing, did a sketch, stuck it on a cassette. I thought at some point, I'll go back to it. Some of it I did use in '84-'85 when I started working in the Free Theatre in Christchurch. So it might seem like I had given up after the Pin Group, but I just went into a different avenue.

  Roy Montgomery

  Guitar, Musical, Theatre

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• I think that this performance with the Thingamajigs is going to be an exploration of the acoustic space and particularly the vertical space, which we don't think about so much.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Thinking, Space, Exploration

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• The magic of film isn't just because of the big screen, or the acoustics, but the ineffable shared experience of going to the movies.

  Fernando Perez

  Magic, Film, Ineffable

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I don't see any rock stars playing an electric guitar from some new maker like you see in the acoustic guitar world.

  Paul Reed Smith

  Stars, Rocks, Guitar

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• It's very important to have a good song - one where you can strip away all the production and just play it on guitar or at the piano. It has to hold its own. That's why I've put videos online with acoustic versions of my songs, so you can hear them in their original form.

  Lights

  Song, Guitar, Play

  Source: www.ign.com

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